Social Issues in #Philadelphia, #USA

@stux What exactly is going on here ?

@zleap @stux it looks like drugs won the war

@piggo @stux @zleap
It's one of America's urban 'bad areas'. A stretch of street within city limits where you'll encounter drug addicts, homeless and the like. This is common in many major cities and some not-so-major.

@lucifargundam @piggo @zleap Wow damn Kinda sad that's it's "common" :(

@stux @lucifargundam @piggo

Indeed and years of 'experts' highly paid and apparently qualified still have not found a solution or solutions that actually work properly.

@zleap Ah that's sad.. :( Personally I think the "war on drugs" is a huge failure and totally the wrong way to handle it.. What country was it, that instead of locking up users, they're gonna provide "clean shoot-up places" and programs addicts could enter to get a better, drug-free life :)

I live in the Netherlands but we don't have this issue, not on this scale by far.. While some drugs are "gedoogd" here

@lucifargundam @piggo

@stux @lucifargundam @piggo

So wjhat happens if a person is high on say Cannabis (pot) drives a car or ther vehicle and kills or injures someone. ?

I know pot is legal in Holland.

@zleap @stux @lucifargundam it sounds like it should be DUI no mater what "I" it was, alcohol is a drug too, after all...

@piggo @lucifargundam @zleap It's not weed that is the issue in the NL but more laughing gas these days..

Also my neighbours are hooked to it it seems and a lot of youth does it behind the wheel since it's not completely illegal (yet)

@stux @piggo @lucifargundam

We have a problem with that here too. just seems odd people want to breath in a gas that can be deadly if not used properly

Then again I had a chemistry set when I was 10 or 11, it said clearly in there about NOT breathing in reactants, I understood that even at 11.